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Can a ceiling light with a wall on off switch be converted to a pull chain switch?
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∙ 14y ago
Yes. The challenges here are both mechanical and electrical.
The mechanical challenge is finding a secure and reliable place to mount the new switch: you must mount it in a location that can support the repeated stress of someone tugging on it.
The whole switch must be securely mounted. It is best to use the proper type of electrical pull-switch that has been designed to be securely screwed to a ceiling. It should actually be screwed onto a firm wooden ceiling joist above the plasterboard of the ceiling. Although it might seem possible to fit a switch inside the actual light fixture, this is not recommended, for safety reasons. Don't ever let any switch just hang out on its wires, it is unsafe and could pull the wiring out of the switch body leaving an exposed, uninsulated hot wire. The electrical challenge: installing a new switch to control the lighting fixture is electrically trivial but must be done correctly and safely. FIRST TURN OFF THE POWER AT THE MAIN PANEL. Then, without disturbing any Neutral or Ground wires, simply connect the new pull-switch into the Hot wire which feeds the lighting fixture.
Remove the old wall switch and disconnect the two existing wires from it. Then connect those wires together safely and securely using a proper insulated electrical connector. Cover the wall box with a blank wall plate so it remains there. This is just in case, sometime in the future, someone else wants to replace the blank plate by a toggle wall switch to control the light instead of the pull switch. (Some folks dislike using pull-chain switches because they prefer to use wall switches.) <><><>
As always, if you are in doubt about what to do, the best advice anyone should give you is to call a licensed electrician to advise what work is needed.
Before you do any work yourself,
on electrical circuits, equipment or appliances,
always use a test meter to ensure the circuit is, in fact, de-energized.
IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY SURE YOU CAN DO THIS JOB
SAFELY AND COMPETENTLY
REFER THIS WORK TO QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS.
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I had the same experience. If the fan turns on/off with its pull chain but the light doesn't, then the switch behind the light's pull-chain is broke and needs to be replaced.
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Open up the ceiling box and disconnect the blue wire coming from the light and connect it to the black wire coming from the fan. Be sure and put a wire nut on the wire where the light was connected before you removed it. The wall switch is controlling power to the wire where the fan is connected so when you connect the blue fan wire to that connection you will be sending power to both the fan and light from the wall switch.
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not orden araly
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